The Culinary Curios of Dirk Staschke

Award winning Canadian ceramicist Dirk Staschke will be opening an enticing show at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington this March, entitled “Falling Feels A lot Like Flying.” Showing a specially made exhibition of bountiful-to-the-point-of obscene food tableaus, Staschke’s work is notable for its large scale size and impressively realistic depictions of abundant stacks of desserts, king’s table cornucopias, and strings of strung up animals about to be prepared for the table.

Inspired by 16th century Vanitas paintings and the opulence of the Baroque period, Staschke’s work mixes extravagant decadence with a sense that such seductive overindulgences are on the cusp of deteriorating and our age of excess and over consumption may be about to crash and burn. Staschke graciously gave Hi Fructose a sneak peek of the show, more images below -Kirsten Anderson